"Your Majesty, please come on and give us a bite to eat!"
"Second Young Master, please save us, we old Qin people will help the Wu family conquer the world from now on!"
"Kang Mazi is so evil. He robbed us of our food rations, fields, houses, and property, and even drove us out of Xi'an City to starve to death."
"Your Majesty, Second Young Master, you are the Bodhisattvas who save people from suffering. Please save us."
Hundreds of thousands of old Qin people who were driven out of Xi'an by Kangxi were escorted by the Wu family's cavalry and dragged for half a day and a whole night on the desolate Guanzhong Plain. Finally, they arrived outside the Bashang Camp. There was a large group of people sitting there, all crying for help. Please Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi save them!
Wu Yingxiong, Wu Yingqi, Wu Shifan, Wu Shicong, as well as a group of generals and counselors from the Wu family, all came to Wu Yingxiong's army for a meeting inexplicably. Oh, it was not all inexplicable. Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan understood Kangxi's behavior very well. This is a behavior that even a villain would not be completely responsible for. Because they are actually part of a group of good boys from the Eight Banners in Beijing!
The strategy that Wu Yingqi mentioned before, which is to drive the common people to use as cannon fodder and consume the enemy's ammunition and strength, is the skill of Amma, a gang of bad boys from the Eight Banners in Beijing. But what kind of living environment do those evil Amma live in? As long as they have some conscience, Emperor Chongzhen would not hang himself on the branch of a tree in Meishan.
And if Emperor Chongzhen was half as vicious as them, the peasant uprising would have been suppressed long ago, the nobles in the capital would have donated money honestly, and the Jiangnan scholar-bureaucrats might have become model tax payers.
In these troubled times, if there is no real strong man from the sky to lead everyone to reduce dimensions and attack opponents, it will often be whoever has the lower bottom line who will benefit - in fact, this is the last word in the Manchurian's favorite art of war, "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms"!
After all, in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the last person who laughed was the "big devil". And Huang Taiji and Dorgon both understood this truth. Although Kangxi and Wu Yingxiong can understand every word in "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", the real truth in it is not that Kangxi and Wu Yingxiong, who were raised in deep palaces or mansions and were regarded as the favored sons of heaven or aspiring to be peaceful since childhood, Such a character can be understood immediately.
Even if they understand, it is impossible for them to immediately complete the transformation from "candidate Liu Huangshu" and "candidate Zhuge Liang" to "current Cao thief" and "current Sima Zhao"
For example, Wu Yingxiong and Wu Shifan are still a little unable to change at the moment, but a group of little devils headed by Wu Yingqi and Wu Shicong who have been fighting with various chieftains in the southwest are turning bad very quickly.
"Boss, Kang Mazi is really out of his mind. He drove hundreds of thousands of people out of the city because of insufficient military rations. What a fool!" Wu Yingqi was the one who spoke. He had already figured out what Kang Xi was thinking, so he laughed. He couldn't close his mouth, and then he began to teach his brother how to be a villain.
"How come you are a fool?" Wu Yingxiong was frowning, "With hundreds of thousands of people, how much do they need to eat in a day?"
"Eating one or two thousand a day will last at least three months!" Wu Yingqi replied.
"Eating one or two thousand dan of grain a day?" Wu Yingxiong was stunned. "It's still three months. Doesn't that mean we have to eat two to three thousand dan? Where can we get it?"
Wu Yingqi was shocked by Wu Yingxiong's words, and looked at his brother in surprise, "Boss, what are you talking about? I mean, if you eat one or two thousand people a day, you can probably feed them for three months!"
"What? Cannibalism? You?" Wu Yingxiong stared at his brother with wide eyes, "You, you still cannibalize?"
Wu Yingqi never expected that his brother would react so strongly, and quickly shook his head and said: "No, no boss, don't get me wrong, I have never eaten anyone." Then the big mouth pushed this issue to the meeting. The generals asked, "Have you ever eaten it? How does it taste?"
This question asked several elderly people, veterans who had worked with Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who didn't know how to answer. Because it seems like, maybe, maybe, they actually ate a little bit
But even so, Wu Yingqi couldn't ask in front of everyone?
Why is this Mr. Wu talking nonsense?
When he becomes emperor in the future, will he discuss cannibalism with his ministers on a whim when he is in court? Isn't this a joke?
Wu Shicong quickly helped his "cheating father" change the subject: "Dad, let's discuss how to make use of the hundreds of thousands of people outside the camp. Although they are not particularly strong, they can follow us all the way. Bashang."
Wu Yingqi waved his hand: "Does this need to be discussed? Let them push the shield cart to fill the trench! We have a hundred thousand troops but we dare not attack the city, isn't it because we are afraid of casualties? Now let the people stand in front and die!"
This is a good idea!
A group of old villains brought out by Wu Sangui all provoked Brother Thumb and agreed!
"Second Master's method is good! This is how we fought in the past!"
"We fought like this in Yunnan, but in Sichuan we couldn't catch anyone and had to fight hard ourselves!"
"Master, let's do this. With these hundreds of thousands of people filling the trenches, the city of Xi'an can be taken down in a month at most!"
Wu Yingxiong frowned after hearing this. The people outside regarded him as Wu Dabodhisattva who was rescuing people in distress. How could he send people as cannon fodder to fill trenches? Where is the conscience?
Thinking of this, Wu Yingxiong coughed and said: "Second brother, we are teachers of benevolence and righteousness, how can we let the people fill trenches and die? Now that the people's hearts in Guanzhong have finally returned to us, we must cherish the people and strengthen their hearts."
It’s over!
The group of Wu family veterans below were all dumbfounded.
How does Wu Sangui educate his children? We have two sons together. One is a big mouth and talks nonsense, and the other is even worse. He has a heart of a Buddha!
How can a Bodhisattva become an emperor with a kind heart?
Seeing the surprised looks from the people below, Wu Yingxiong also frowned a little. He remembered that his family didn't seem to be a teacher of benevolence and righteousness. His father Wu Sangui was just an old bastard who was unjust, unfaithful and unfilial!
In "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", even Yuan Shao and Cao Cao can't compete with each other, but Yuan Shu is the best!
Wu Shifan saw that his father had also said the wrong thing, so he had no choice but to help save the world and said with a smile: "Father, you are right. The people in Guanzhong are now turning towards us. Let's just go with the trend and be Uncle Liu Huang!"
Wu Yingxiong nodded repeatedly: "Yes, yes, we want to be Uncle Liu Huang!"
But how does this Uncle Liu Huang want to be?
Everyone looked at Wu Shifan, a handsome young man.
Wu Shifan cleared his throat and said eloquently: "We should evacuate Xi'an City with the hundreds of thousands of people who were driven out of Xi'an City, plus all the people in the counties and towns within Xi'an Prefecture who are willing to follow us! I made a rough estimate, there may be four to five million people! Let's move all these people to Sichuan, organize them into camps, and then allocate land, seeds, and cattle to them, and let them work as farm fields for us Households. In this way for at least three years, Sichuan, which is now thousands of miles away, will be full of fertile fields, and we will have more abundant sources of food and troops!"
This Mr. Wu seems to have a bit of a Bodhisattva heart!
The veterans below all looked worried and had doubts about the ability of the old Wu family to educate their children and grandchildren.
Why are they so unreliable? Either he is a big mouth or he is a kind person.
Wu Shifan is also a good boy, but he is more reasonable than his father, so he can still fool him a little more. So he continued to present the facts and reason: "Today's world is already divided into three parts and four parts. Maybe it will be There has been a situation of separatism for a hundred years! And if my family cannot conquer the world at once, how can we rely on to win the final victory in this hundred-year stalemate? Although our family's territory is large, only the frontier areas of Huguang, Gansu and Shaanxi have a larger population. Sichuan, which used to be known as Tianfu, is desolate, and Yunnan and Guizhou do not have much population.
In other words, we do not have a reliable rear area, and we do not have a steady supply of food, equipment, and troops. Once we fall into a protracted period, can we still defeat Prince Zhu San, Li Fuchen, Li Laishun, and Zheng Jing? "
After saying this, he looked at Wu Yingqi who seemed to be convinced by him and asked: "Second uncle, how about half of the people we take away from Xi'an Mansion are from the same family?"
"Half a family?" Wu Yingqi looked at his nephew, "That's a population of over 200,000 people. How will they be accommodated?"
"The second uncle can take his villagers to Chengdu Prefecture through the pass, and then resettle them in Chengdu, Mianzhou, Meizhou, and Zizhou, and set up military commanders in these four states to manage them. And My father then led some 200,000 people to be resettled in Shunqing and Chongqing Prefectures, and also established military commanders in the field."
This is to add five points to Wu Sangui’s Sichuan!
Wu Yingqi divided one government into three states. In fact, it was the Chengdu Plain area, while Wu Yingxiong took over the Chongqing area.
If things continue to develop in the future, Wu Yingqi will be the King of Chengdu! And Wu Yingxiong at least has a Chongqing king.
In addition, Wu Shifan also proposed the establishment of the official position of "Tuntian Commandery", which actually meant militarizing farming!
This is actually not a new strategy. Exploring the wilderness is inherently a high-risk, high-investment and long-return cycle. Without a highly organized and militarized farming team, progress on this matter would be very slow.
For example, the Qing Dynasty's "filling in" of Sichuan in Huguang took more than a hundred years, from the Kangxi year to the Qianlong year.
Wu Yingqi thought about it for a while. It seemed good. The population of 200,000 was his! If you go to Chengdu and recruit a few field captains, you will be able to have a more reliable rear supply base when you pass through the northwest in the future.
To put it bluntly, if the brothers really turn against each other in the future, he will also have a base to fight civil war!
After understanding the joints, he put away his bad thoughts, nodded and said: "Okay. Let's discuss how to evacuate! There are hundreds of thousands of people who want to evacuate this time!"
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, I am so happy, Wu Ni's troops have begun to retreat!"
"real?"
In the south study room where Xi'an was staying, he learned the news about the evacuation of the Wu family's army from Fei Yanggu, the newly promoted minister in charge of the bodyguard. He felt sorry for his ancestors because he was not bad enough (their ancestors were all so bad, why don't you learn a little bit?) Kangxi, who had regretted it for several days, was already crying with joy, and his eyes were moist. While he was happy, he still couldn't believe it.
Because in the past two days, Laita, the old bad guy with the three big bad guys Dorgon, Dodo, and Azig, has been guest-starring as "the chief master of the study" every day. He is responsible for teaching Kangxi bad things!
Kangxi had previously known about the many glorious deeds and hardships encountered by his ancestors who conquered the world with their bows and horses. But no one told him that the reason why his ancestors were able to win was not only because they were skillful with bows and horses and brave in battle, but also because their ancestors were bad enough, and Wanli, Tianqi, Chongzhen, and Eunuch Wei from the Ming Dynasty were not bad enough! None of them have reached the point of doing all kinds of evil and resorting to any extreme measures.
And after a few days of education about bad people and bad things, Kangxi finally understood where he went wrong?
It turns out that I am so damn kind! Good people are bullied!
Of course, the remaining kindness of Kangxi was not his own fault, but the failure of the education of the Qing emperors. Is it reliable to let a group of Han Confucian scholars who read sages and sages teach people to be bad?
Now that Laita has only been teaching for a few days, Kangxi's moral standards have deteriorated immediately, and the deterioration has been so rapid that he has initially fallen into a trap because he actually let hundreds of thousands of Han people in Xi'an city have a not-so-wide way to survive. Deep self-blame and guilt.
"Your Majesty, it's absolutely true. When I led the cavalry out of the city for inspection today, I discovered that the unruly people who had gathered in Ba Shang had been organized into a line by the rebels and started to move to the southwest of Xi'an City!"
Kangxi wiped away his tears, and a fierce expression appeared on his face: "Fei Yanggu, I will give you three thousand cavalry, you can charge and kill a few waves for me! Remember, you must disperse the people and retreat. Never do this." Get into a fight. In addition, don’t retreat far away, just hang behind them and look for another opportunity to take action! But don’t kill everyone. If you kill them one by one, you can retreat. I want them to be afraid of me, but I don’t want them to be afraid of me. They jumped over the wall to attack Xi'an."
This Kangxi is really bad! Geniuses are good at learning, and they learn to be bad guys faster than ordinary people.
"嗻!"
Feiyanggu accepted the order and left, while Laita, Jinba Tai, and Duikana, the senior bachelors, all showed happy smiles. With the blessing of their ancestors, the emperor finally turned bad!
"Your Majesty!"
Several old men shouted Shengming from the bottom of their hearts.
Kangxi was indeed wise this time! It’s just that Sheng Ming was a little late.
Kangxi added: "Wu Yingxiong and Wu Yingqi want to use these refugees to attack the city, and they should start now. However, they have arranged for the refugees to evacuate to the southwest. It seems that they are sending them to farm in Sichuan! Although in three to five years, these refugees may The Wu brothers will be given millions of stones of food, but now it is impossible for the Wu brothers to stay outside Xi'an.
I finally won the battle in Xi'an! "
"This servant is waiting to congratulate the Emperor!"
The battle in Xi'an is a win-win situation. Kangxi wins, Wu Yingxiong wins, and Wu Yingqi wins. It's a win-win situation.
Kangxi then said: "Then what should I do next?"
"Your Majesty, why don't you return to the capital and take charge?"
"Your Majesty, if Xi'an is handed over to the slaves, there will be no problem for three to five years. The capital is still more important!"
"Your Majesty, Zhili is the foundation of our Qing Dynasty!"
Laita, Jinba Tai, and Tukana all advised Kangxi to return to Beijing—there was already a regent in Beijing! Why don't you go back quickly, arrest Fuquan and kill him?
But Kangxi knew that he couldn't do it!
He has evil intentions to harm Fuquan, but he has no choice but to stand behind Fuquan the author of Shunzhi's edict - he can write any edict he wants!
What do you want Kangxi to do?
Kangxi issued an imperial edict granting death to Fuquan, and Shunzhi immediately issued an edict to grant Fuquan a life-saving card!
Kangxi issued an edict to arrest Fuquan, and Shunzhi immediately issued a posthumous edict asking Fuquan to "replace him".
Moreover, it seems that Kangxi's "victory" in Xi'an did not bring much prestige, and he may not be able to resist the "edict" behind Fuquan.
"I can't leave Xi'an!" Kangxi said with a pockmarked face, "Because the Erwu will evacuate Xi'an city, but it is impossible to evacuate Guanzhong. If I guessed correctly, one of them will occupy Fengxiang and the other will occupy Shangzhou. They won't If we leave, the Battle of Xi'an will not be considered over. If I withdraw, then I will be the loser in the Battle of Xi'an!"
This reason is far-fetched.
Could it be that Kangxi stayed in Xi'an and refused to go back because he wanted to lose face?
It seems that we need to be educated properly - the real bad guys have no shame!
Kang Mazi did not continue to argue with his subordinates about whether to return to Beijing. Instead, he changed the topic and talked about the war situation in Jiangnan: "Now that Xi'an cannot be lost for the time being, the key to the world's belonging is Jiangnan! And Jiangnan's gains and losses The key lies in whether Prince An and Prince Kang can really make up their mind to draft a decree for me, telling the two princes that I only want Nanjing. Even if it is an empty city, I don't care!
Tell them again, there are many unruly people in Jiangnan, and they must be severely suppressed! Jin Shengtan and his ilk must kill more! In addition, the strong men of Jiangnan, Tuanyong, should also risk their lives to attack the city of Nanjing. Even if there are millions of casualties, Nanjing must be captured by me! "
(End of chapter)
